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~¢lose, broad, slightly emarginate, whitish-ochraceous, then 
cinnamon ; stipe stout, solid, fibrillose, whitish, girt with one 
to four red bands, bulbous. 
Height 4-6’, breadth of pileus 2’—4’, stipe 4-8” thick. 
Woods. North Elba. August. 
A large and noble species. The margin of the pileus is thin 
and sometimes uneven ; the upper band on the stem is usually 
the brightest and most regular. The pileus is not distinctly 
hygrophanous. 
17. CORTINARIUS DISTANS 7. Sp. 
Pileus thin except the disk, convex, squamulose, bay-brown 
when moist, tawny when dry ; lamelle broad, distant, thick, 
dark cinnamon-color; stipe subequal, often a little tapering 
upward, solid, slightly fibrillose-scaly, concolorous. 
Height 2’—3’, breadth of pileus 1’-2’, stipe 4’-6” thick. 
Grassy ground in pine woods. Greenbush. June. 
The flesh is dull yellowish. The pileus, when drying, has 
for a time a brown marginal zone. 
18. CORTINARIUS BIFORMIS F7. 
Pileus fleshy, thin except the disk, convex or subcampanu: 
late, then expanded and broadly umbonate, smooth, shining, 
of a bay color; lamelle rather broad at the inner extremity, 
tapering outwardly, subrounded at the stipe, scarcely emar- 
ginate, watery cinnamon; stipe stout, solid or stuffed, fibril- 
lose-striated, paler than the pileus, subannulate, the sheath 
white, generally obliquely terminating, sometimes distant. 
Height 2’- 4’, breadth of pileus 2’, stipe 3’— 4” thick. 
Ground under spruce and balsam trees. Catskill Mountains. 
October. 
The plant is sometimes ceespitose, and not unfrequently the 
cuticle cracks into scales or areas. 
19. CORTINARIUS CASTANEOIDES 7. Sp. 
Pileus thin, convex, becoming expanded, with deflexed 
margin, smooth, dark bay or chestnut-color when moist, paler 
when dry; lamelle not crowded, slightly and unequally 
emarginate, yellowish-cinnamon, then cinnamon-color; stipe 
slender, equal, stuffed or hollow, subannulate, paler than the 
pileus, the veil or sheath white. 
Height 1’—2’, breadth of pileus 6’—12”, stipe 1-2” thick. 
Under hemlock trees. Catskill Mountains. October. 
The pileus sometimes has a small umbo. The plant is gre- 
garious or cespitose. The veil is subpersistent, and its abrupt 
termination affords a quite distinct annulus. (Plate 4, figs. 
10-15.) 
